Lottery E-mail Fraud Targets South Derbyshire and Burton Residents

Residents of England's South Derbyshire and Burton are being cautioned about one e-mail scam asserting that it's related to the National Lottery and Olympics, published burtonmail.co.uk dated June 18, 2012.

Anxious people receiving the scam e-mail disclosed that the messages told them they were winners of 1m pound following one joint promotion scheme by both the associations.

Evidently, recipients were directed for giving out different personal details such as name and address, their passport's facsimile and bank account number.

An Olympics association Spokesman stated that they knew about instances wherein e-mails were dispatched spuriously asserting that the messages were from London 2012 alternatively more associations having roles in the mega sport event; however, that was in fact the initial move within any online scam. Burtonmail.co.uk published this.

The Spokesman further stated that the scam subsequently, like always, persuaded the e-mail receiver towards disclosing his bank details alternatively remit cash up-front towards the prize-money's release.

But, he added that if at all London 2012 needed collecting anyone's bank information or other personal details it would solely do so through a secure Internet site.

Security analysts after examining the new scam distributing lottery-prize e-mails elaborate the mode-of-operation these kinds of frauds use. Victims typically receive notifications that they're winners of a lottery (like within the aforementioned instance), however, require paying taxes, transfer charges, alternatively give their identification details as proof as also their credit card or bank account particulars so they may get the prize monies. The e-mails keep changing the organizations' names when the existing one gets disclosed and proved a fraud, albeit the wording of the notifications mostly remains the same.

Hence, it's advisable that anyone getting such an e-mail must first avoid answering it. For, doing so will help the scammers use the recipient's id to turn him into a potential victim. Albeit "baiting" these fraudsters can be enlightening or even entertaining, such attempts must solely be taken when conditions are controlled. Operators of these scams have only illicit motive and may as well take to threats and violence. Consequently, such e-mails should be erased as they are, security officials recommend.

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